The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 89

Leaf after leaf he threw aside in disgust, and he had nearly reached the end when he gave a cry of joy--the five-leaved trefoil was in his hand.

Who acts: Leaf, sky, leaved trefoil, joy · What happens: throw, reach, give, be, cry · To what, where: disgust, end, cry, hand

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leaf, sky, leaved trefoil, joy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	nsubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 leaf	case
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaf	nmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 threw	nsubj
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	aside	aside	ADV	_	5 threw	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 disgust	case
8	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reached	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 reached	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reached	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 reached	aux
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	14 reached	advmod
14	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 threw	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reached	obj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 gave	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 reached	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cry	det
21	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 joy	case
23	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cry	nmod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trefoil	det
26	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 leaved	nummod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 five	punct
28	leaved	leaved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 trefoil	amod
29	trefoil	trefoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hand	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hand	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 hand	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hand	nmod:poss
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	Leaf after leaf		disgust	aside property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in disgust=Destination
2	reach	past · perfect	sky	the end		nearly property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme
3	give	past	sky	a cry of joy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
4	is	past	the leaved trefoil		sky's hand		tree rules
5	cry		joy				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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